Desc: The White Rose: Directed by D.W. Griffith. With Mae Marsh, Carol Dempster, Ivor Novello, Neil Hamilton. Joseph, a wealthy young Southern aristocrat, graduates from a seminary; before he takes charge of his assigned parish, he decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and becomes attracted to Bessie, a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie discovers that she is pregnant by Joseph.